How to upgrade from warty to hoary...

[Gary Jarrel]

I did an upgrade as well from wartyp to hoary and had the same issue
with the kacpid which kicked in and was using 98-99% of the CPU. This
problem was predominately why I did the upgrade. Although I did have the
guts to restart the machine during the upgrade so I waited while the
upgrade process was running on the balance of CPU usage which took
approximately 3 hours. 

When it finished my X failed to start properly in that the Gnome desktop
would come up but no icons or panels, just the background. After some
searching I realised that I was missing some libraries and some gnome
utilities. After installing these the system was running perfectly and
the kacpid problem went away. 

- Gary

On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 10:21 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is there a way to accomplish that? I don't want to install a new system, 
> just to upgrade my existing warty, possibly without downloading a CD 
> image, just by means of apt-get or something like that.
> 
> On the other hand, are there any risks in this operation? Should I 
> really install a totally new system?
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> -- 
> Andrea Giuliano, Ph. D.
> ICCU - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico
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>